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The free program from Adobe to read, print and search .pdf files has got a new update. New Features: * Yahoo Contextual Searching (part of Y!Q) * If you select text, either a single word or phrase within a PDF, and right click with the mouse, then you are presented with menu item that allows… Continue reading Adobe Reader 7.0.8

Paint.NET is a freeware graphics editing tool. Changes: * Built-in updater now works in Vista without having to use “Run as Administrator” beforehand (UAC permission is still required to install updates) * Fixed a color intensity calculation that had Red and Blue swapped (affects Brightness/Contrast adjustment, and some plugins) * Fixed .PDN images with transparency… Continue reading Paint.NET 2.63

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Changelog: * Native support for new free Nero Digital AAC encoder * New “Advanced Preferences” page * More compatible MP4 tagging scheme * New CD ripping… Continue reading foobar2000 0.9.2 beta 5

The Pirate Bay dot org is back online after Swedish police raided the datacenter and seized their servers two days ago. Hooray! There’s also an interesting audio interview with “Peter” from Thepiratebay.org on CCC Chaosradio. Stay up to date at Slyck.com! A big fuck you to all money greedy bastards 🙂

GrabIt is one of the easiest binary Usenet downloaders in the world. With GrabIt you can search and download MP3 files, pictures, movies, software, games and more on USENET news servers, without downloading gigabytes of headers. The program features NZB file support, automatic batch downloading of multiple binaries at once, advanced error checking, filter options,… Continue reading GrabIt 1.6.1 build 963

Good old Winamp is back with an update! Whats new: * New: loading of additional playlist formats: ASX/WAX/WMX/WVX, WPL, B4S * New: [gen_ff] modern skin unicode support * New: [in_wm] burning of DRM protected files (if allowed by content provider) * New: [ml_pmp] transfer of playlists to portable devices * Improved: More informative CD burning… Continue reading Winamp 5.22

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Changes in 0.9.2 * Support for realtime DSP preset editing * Native support for new free Nero Digital AAC encoder * APL support (no longer maintained)… Continue reading foobar2000 0.9.2 beta 3

Adobe has released an updated for it’s graphical suite Photoshop CS2! * Photoshop no longer hangs for several seconds when using painting tools with quick strokes. * A runtime error that could appear when mousing over a high-res document with the Brush tool has been fixed. * Documents containing a large number of text layers… Continue reading Adobe Photoshop CS2 9.0.1

Note: This is alpha software, used for testing. It will contain bugs and some features are not complete! However, it’s fun to live on the bleeding edge 🙂 Bon Echo Alpha 2, the second development milestone of Mozilla Firefox 2 aimed at developers and testers, is now available. Changes include inline spell checking in text… Continue reading Mozilla Firefox 2 alpha 2

Seven staff in the one building have been diagnosed with brain tumours, and everything seems to be pointing to the mobile phone towers located on the roof. The building is owned by RMIT University and an investigation is taking place. Five of the seven staff worked on the top floor of the building. Medical experts… Continue reading Mobile phone transmitter causes brain tumors?